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| bio | website | crossandcosmos.com |
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| location | Knoxville, IA | |
| age | 36 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | May 13 at 20:37 | |
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I am a web programmer by day (PHP) and work on sermons and teaching material in the evenings.
I attended Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri, for a Master of Arts in Theological Studies and a Master of Divinity. I am an associate pastor at a small church in Iowa. While in seminary, my emphasis was on Old Testament studies, but Dr. Wave Nunnally introduced me to the rabbinics. Those have become a special interest as well.
I also enjoy apologetics and was a very active member of the apologetics.org forum before it went defunct.
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May 9 |
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“A god” or “God” in John 1:1? @hannes, God is not predicative in ho theos agape estin. ho theos is the subject. agape is the part to move after the verb when we translate. And I am arguing against uncap in John 1:1. |
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May 9 |
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“A god” or “God” in John 1:1? added 70 characters in body |
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May 9 |
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“A god” or “God” in John 1:1? @hannes, right. It's a case where translating literally would destroy the meaning. |
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May 3 |
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By what Name did God reveal Himself to Abraham? This question came at a really bad time for me. I'm trying to get some projects at home finished up, and at work I don't have all the resources I need to do this properly. I'll get to this, though. |
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May 1 |
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What is a “reinked” ms? added 1 characters in body |
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May 1 |
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At what point did Abraham know he was talking to God in Genesis 18? I like how you distinguish what the author knows and what Abraham knows. Very good focus. |
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May 1 |
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Who were the scholars responsible for the New English Translation? I didn't realize so many of them were Dallas Theological Seminary. |
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May 1 |
answered | What is a “reinked” ms? |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Apr 29 |
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By what Name did God reveal Himself to Abraham? Saw the question and had a flashback! They aren't duplicates but the title reminded me of the other one. |
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Apr 29 |
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Where does the Tanakh differ from the Christian Old Testament? @konwayk, I am truly sorry you feel I have been rude to you. I do recognize where you felt that way in chat and apologized. I have since made doubly sure to keep my comments to you related to the question at hand. God bless wherever you go. |
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Apr 29 |
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What are the Pharisees saying to search in John 7:52? I like how you started with finding other uses of "search" in John. |
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Apr 29 |
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Do the Dead Sea Scrolls argue against Aramaic primacy? "In this coin (above link), you will read this Aramaic inscription - SHMOWN NSYA YSRAL." If this one coin being in Aramaic proves that Aramaic was the spoken language, what does the plethora of coins with Hebrew inscriptions from the Hasmonean period prove? |
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Apr 29 |
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Where does the Tanakh differ from the Christian Old Testament? I just checked the MT of Gen 2:2. Going with "on" is an odd way to handle the preposition b-. I'd probably go with "by" (like the NASB, NASU, NET, and NIV do). The NAB reads the verb more like a pluperfect ("on the seventh day God was finished"). One should also note (re: 2 Kings 8) that the Hebrew word bet can refer to either a daughter or granddaughter. Thus Athaliah can be the daughter of Ahab and granddaughter of Omri and the same word would be used in Hebrew. The NASU, NASB, NKJV, NIV, and NET translate 8:26 that way. |
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Apr 29 |
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What language did Jesus commonly speak? The DSS are extremely reliable in terms of antiquity. In another answer, I explain how the dates are determined and that the scrolls are not just pre Bar Kochba but pre-destruction (pre AD 70). |
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Apr 29 |
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Genesis 23 — Why does the Bible change the spelling of Ephron's name? Thank you for expanding the answer. It is very nice. |
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Apr 28 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Apr 27 |
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Where does the Tanakh differ from the Christian Old Testament? @JonEricson, #4 should read "One textual tradition of the Tanakh is called the Masoretic Text." It's like in NT studies there are the different families of manuscripts; Western, Receptus, and Alexandrian. |
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Apr 27 |
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Where does the Tanakh differ from the Christian Old Testament? Hebrew was still used after the Exile. This is seen in the existence of the canonical books you name all being in Hebrew (very good Hebrew for some of them). Though Daniel and Ezra have Aramaic sections, this shows that the people knew both. Judith and 1 Maccabees, though preserved in Greek, are agreed by the experts to be originally written in Hebrew. Tobit exists in Hebrew and Aramaic versions. The Hebrew is longer and all scholars agree that it is the original based on the existence of Hebraisms in the Aramaic and no Aramaisms in the Hebrew. Also, Ben Sirach was written first in Hebrew. |
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Apr 26 |
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What language did Jesus commonly speak? added 422 characters in body |
